Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.

I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.

Rock'n'roll saved my soul.

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

I have to reign myself in a lot.

Hits are for squares.

I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.

The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.

Happiness is the appreciation of what you have, not what you should have.

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.

A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person

We are a nation of laws. And nobody can ignore our Constitution. No one's above the law. And that includes the president of the United States.

What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.

The body is seen by the mind, but the mind is seen by what?

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.